Tag: Windows SDK

• What’s new in Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview

  Looks like Windows 10 SDK gets renamed. This post focuses on the Win32 wide of changes. Changes in the WinRT Universal App Platform (UAP) side can be found at https://dev.windows.com/en-us/whats-new-windows-10-dev-preview. Some UAP APIs are available to all desktop apps, for exam DirectX 12 and notification center (should not come as surprise, older version of these APIs are […]

  Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

  24/03/2015

  enmsdn, Microsoft

  Windows 10, Windows SDK

• Make the webbrowser control styled the same way as the hosting application

  User wtx_sonery wants to know whether it is possible to style the webbrowser control with the rest of the application. The answer is yes, you can implement IDocHostUIHandler’s GetHostInfo method and return DOCHOSTUIFLAG_THEME in the host flags. IDocHostUIHandler is already implemented in MFC and ATL. For MFC there are CHtmlControlSite and CBrowserControlSite but you should […]

  Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

  27/10/2009

  Active Template Library, enmsdn, Microsoft, Microsoft Foundation Class Library, Visual C++

  .NET Framework, C#, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft, Microsoft Foundation Class Library, Silverlight, Trident (layout engine), Visual C++, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows SDK, Windows XP

• Detect if a MSI component is installed

  A C# program for those who don’t know MSI SDK or C++. C++ programmers can find the API inside the msi.h  file in Windows SDK. class Program { static int Main(string[] args) { uint pathSize = 0; try { foreach (string componentId in args) { MsiInstallState state = MsiLocateComponent( componentId, null, ref pathSize); if (state […]

  Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

  24/03/2008

  Microsoft

  Application programming interface, C#, Windows SDK